Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gandhi brushed aside the objection that a free India would mean nothing if India's Moslems did not accept Hindu rule. "I have not asked the British to hand over India to Congress or to the Hindus. Let them entrust India to God or, in modern parlance, to anarchy. Then all parties will fight one another like dogs, or will, when real responsibility comes, reach a reasonable agreement. But I expect nonviolence to arise out of that agreement...
...purpose of Maurice Hindus' book is to show that the impossible was the inevitable. The ferocity of Russian resistance, he argues, reflects a new kind of Russian spirit, was armed by a new Russian industrial and agricultural strength...
...observers of Russia since the revolution are better qualified to say so. Among U.S. journalists, Maurice Gerschon Hindus is the only professional Russian peasant (he came to the U.S. when...
...Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began to "liquidate the kulaks [successful farmers] as a class," Journalist Hindus dashed over to Russia to see what was happening to his fellow peasants. Result of his observations was Humanity Uprooted, a best-seller whose thesis was that it may be tough to be collectivized by force, tougher still to be herded off to forced labor in the Arctic, but that...
Three Powers. But the Soviet State has changed the Russian spirit, says Author Hindus, in three important ways: 1) by "the power of the idea"; 2) by "the power of organization"; 3) by "the power of the machine...